Re: Bug in pcmcia-core

Lee Revell
2005-06-21T15:44:22Z

On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 08:35 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> >
> > I thought drivers for the cardbus cards were the same as standard PCI cards.
> > I know that as far as networking goes, the same driver runs a cardbus 3com
> > 3c575 and the pci 3c905. Same with netgear's cardbus FA510 and PCI FA310.
> >
> > I'm not a kernel developer, but this is what I've understood.
> >
>
> That is also what I thought. But I think that the cardbus 3com 3c575
> uses memory for io and not ioports. I think the problem is related to
> the use of ioports on an cardbus card.

Any update on this? Is the PCMCIA layer really unmaintained? Are we
hosed?

A quick grep of the subjects in my LKML folder for "PCMCIA" is certainly
not encouraging. I see lots of questions along the lines of "did ANYONE
EVER get this to work?" with no replies...

Lee